Ryan Patterson

Conferences/Symposiums

18th December 2015:

‘These weapons can never be the arms of other than wealthy and intelligent nations’: The Mitrailleur and Small War doctrine in British military culture, 1869-75.

Paper presented at the Institute of Historical Research Seminar Series on War, Society and Culture, University of London, UK.

12th July 2015:

‘Every nation is closely watching us’: Expeditions as spectacles and the importance of prestige to Britain’s imperial expansion, 1867-74.

Paper presented at the International Symposium on Imperial Expansion and Globalization, Peking University, Beijing, China

21st January 2015:

‘The barbarity of the country was somewhat relieved’: Notions of technology, space, and dominance in the British Abyssinian and Ashanti Expeditions, 1868-1874.

Paper presented at the Topology of Technology Research Group

Seminar Series, Technischen Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt,

Germany.

30th July 2014:

‘They say that it excited laughter rather than terror, among their men’: The British Professional Military Debate on Mitrailleurs, 1869-1875.

Paper presented at the 9th Symposium of the Social History of 

Military Technology, part of the 41st International Committee for 

the History of Technology (ICOHTEC) Symposium held in Brasov,

Romania.

29th April 2014:

‘The fame of it sounded with loud reverberations’: Imperialism, Exhibition Culture, and British International Prestige, 1867-74.

Paper presented at the 3nd annual Exeter PGR Humanities

Conference, 2014, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

31st March 2014:

He ‘believes thoroughly in “prestige” – as all foreigners do’: Disraeli’s politics, international exhibitions, and the development of British high imperial culture.

Paper presented at at the Southampton GradNet Humanities

Postgraduate Conference, 2014, University of Southampton,

Southampton, UK.

1st May 2013:

'African Fever Finds in British Pluck its Most Obstinate Opponent': Nature's challenges and the Victorian imagination in the Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions.

Paper presented at the 2nd annual Exeter PGR Humanities Conference, 2013, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

15th March 2013:

'The Dreary Pestilence-guarded Portal': Africa and the British imagination in the Abyssinian and Ashanti expeditions.

Paper presented at at the Southampton GradNet Humanities Postgraduate Conference, 2013, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.

1st May 2012:

Climate and Context: Foreign soldiers in the British Army and changing ideas of racial dominance.

Paper presented at the 1st annual Exeter PGR Humanities Conference, 2012, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.

25th February 2011:

Out of Their Element: Changing notions of racial difference and foreign soldiers in the British Army.

Paper presented at the 15th annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada.

13th March 2009:

The National Pulpit: Schilling's confessional hypothesis and the motives for the Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years War.

Paper presented at the 6th annual McGill-Queen's Graduate Student Conference in History, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.

21st February 2009:

Crossing the Gates of the Post: the civic status of the West Indian Regiments and legal heterogeneity in the 19th-century British Empire.

Paper presented at the 13th annual New Frontiers Graduate History Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada.